Formatting SQL Code Blocks in Markdown Files
Introduction Everything Changes. Our Trivadis SQL & PL/SQL Coding Guidelines are no exceptions. We plan to change rule #1 of our coding styles. From “Keywords are written uppercase, names are written in lowercase.” to “Keywords and names are written in lowercase.“. We have 103 Markdown…
Always Free Autonomous JSON Database?
Introduction Oracle just released the Autonomous JSON Database (AJD). This is a special version of the Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) database focussing on managing JSON documents via Simple Oracle Document Access (SODA) and SQL. Beda Hammerschmidt shows in this blog post how you can use…
Data Guard, Easy Connect and the Observer for multiple configurations
EZConnect One of the challenges of automation in bin Oracle Environments is dealing with tnsnames.ora files. These files might grow big and are sometimes hard to distribute/maintain properly. The worst is when manual modifications are needed: manual operations, if not made carefully, can screw up…
Script to check Data Guard status from SQL
In a previous blog post I have explained how to get the basic configuration from x$drc and display something like: OBJECT_ID DATABASE INTENDED_STATE CONNECT_STRING ENABLED ROLE RECEIVE_FROM SHIP_TO FSFOVALIDITY STATUS ——— ————– —————– —————————- ——- ——– ———— ————– ———— ——- 16842752 toolcdb1_site1 READ-WRITE-XPTON newbox01:1521/TOOLCDB1_SITE1 YES…
Script to check Data Guard status from SQL
In a previous blog post I have explained how to get the basic configuration from x$drc and display something like: OBJECT_ID DATABASE INTENDED_STATE CONNECT_STRING ENABLED ROLE RECEIVE_FROM SHIP_TO FSFOVALIDITY STATUS ——— ————– —————– —————————- ——- ——– ———— ————– ———— ——- 16842752 toolcdb1_site1 READ-WRITE-XPTON newbox01:1521/TOOLCDB1_SITE1 YES…
Formatting SQL Scripts in a Directory Tree with SQLcl
Introduction Oracle’s SQL Developer can format code in any worksheet and PL/SQL editor. The formatter is highly configurable and the default formatting results are becoming better with every version. Oracle’s SQLcl is a command-line tool. It’s a stripped down version of SQL Developer and known…
Oracle 19c solves ORA-00026 when killing PDB sessions
Oracle Multitenant was a big architectural change for Oracle Database. I guess it was not so easy to introduce it to such a complex system. Unsurprisingly, there were some side effects introduced, but Oracle works hard to correct them. One example is ORA-00026: missing or…
Oracle Critical Patch Update Juli 2020 – Statistiken und Grafiken
Mit 443 Patches im Juli-CPU hat die Gesamtzahl der Patches in den Oracle Critical Patch Updates ein neues Allzeit-Hoch erreicht. Diese Patches verteilen sich auf die gesamte Produktpalette von Oracle und da auch die Anzahl der betroffenen Produkte mit 136 ein neues Maximum erreicht hat,…
Real-Time Cascade Standby Container Databases without Oracle Managed Files
OK, the title might not be the best… I just would like to add more detail to content you can already find in other blogs (E.g. this nice one from Philippe Fierens http://pfierens.blogspot.com/2020/04/19c-data-guard-series-part-iii-adding.html). I have this Cascade Standby configuration: DGMGRL> connect / Connected to “TOOLCDB1_SITE1″…
Preplugin Backups and the Missing Piece
Subheading 1: Preplugin Backups for non-CDB to PDB Conversions and the RMAN-06054 Subheading 2: PrePlugin Backups and the need for “Trick 17” The following is coming from a customer project. Imagine you have a huge non-CDB database, assume some terabytes. And you want to bring…